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UK Prime Minister David Cameron To Resign
Well that escalated quickly…Speaking from in front of 10 Downing Street, UK PM David Cameron just stated that he will step down as Prime Minister, explaining that “I think the country requires fresh leadership.”
As The Wall Street Journal reports,
“There are times when it is right to ask the people themselves, that is what we have done,” David Cameron says.
“Let me congratulate all those who took part in the Leave campaign,” the Prime Minister says.
“The will of the British people is an instruction that must be obeyed,” Mr. Cameron says.
There an be no doubt about the result, he says.
I would reassure those markets and investors that Britain’s economy is fundamentally strong
There will be no initial change in the way our people can travel in the way our trade can move, Mr. Cameron says.
Mr. Cameron says strong leadership is needed.
“I am proud to have been prime minister of this country,” he says.
“I fought this campaign in the only way I know how which is to say directly and passionately what I think and feel,” Mr. Cameron adds.
“I think the country requires fresh leadership,” Mr. Cameron says.
“I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination.”
“There is no need for a precise timetable,” he says.
“I will continue in post for the next three months,” Mr. Cameron says.
“I love this country and I feel honored to have served it and I will do everything I can to help it succeed in the future,” Mr. Cameron says, his voice breaking as he concludes his resignation speech.
139 Comments on "UK Prime Minister David Cameron To Resign"
Croatian Holiday Maker on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 12:48 pm
https://youtu.be/wACWvCTkb-g
Davy, we bought them too and finaly they recently arrived and the event was all over the news.
Davy on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 12:55 pm
The Bubble maestro himself see this Brexit period as the worst in his career but he is getting old and senile, still, I think this is the loss of control that will undo many efforts by TPTB currently underway. Expect turbulence and dysfunction heading right into the US circus election. How much more hilarious can that be!
“Greenspan: “This Is The Worst Period I Recall; There’s Nothing Like It”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-24/greenspan-worst-period-i-recall-theres-nothing-it
During a CNBC inteview today, when discussing the historic Brexit vote outcome, Alan Greenspan unleashed a fiery sermon that could have been prepared just by reading a random selection of posts from this website, the former Fed chairman told his shocked hosts that the current period, far from the raging “Obama recovery” spun every day by adaministration propaganda appratchicks and one that prompted the Fed to unleash a ridiculous rate hike cycle in December just as the US is sliding into a recession, and is instead the “worst period” he has seen, surpassing even the infamous Black Monday in severity.
claman on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 1:00 pm
Cro, forget my last comment (about fascist etc.).
I agree with what you are saying:
“Yes claman, a new more rightwing Europe of the Fatherlands will emerge from the “refugee” crisis and will replace the EU. It will be more decentralized, Brussels/Strassburg will be dismantled, it will be more like the EEC and Russia will be invited. And their will be Fortress Europe like a Fortress America.”
We have to go backwards a little , and let the each country decide who they want in and who not.
claman on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 1:09 pm
Davy, I know we have been ridiculed for our choise of fighter, but the F-35 is actually a good striker on open seas, which is where we are going to use it. That could be the Atlantics or the Baltics. No regrets here.
Davy on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 1:14 pm
Actually they are both good fighters depending on how they are deployed.
claman on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 1:28 pm
Davy: Exactly, none of the frontline states want it, for a good reason. I believe we are quite satisfied with what we got it, it does what we want it to do.
GregT on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 2:43 pm
As long as the anglo-zionist deep state still controls the central banks, it matters little what the people vote for. The underlying problem still remains. Chaos is always lucrative.
Croation Holiday Maker on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 3:26 pm
http://ericmargolis.com/2016/06/europe-let-the-brits-go/
One of my (many) favorite American columnists Eric Margolis pleading to let the English go and singing the praise of the historic accomplishments of the EU. This was written before the referendum. Eric, like me, did not expect the outcome. I was whatsapping with my brother in Holland from Croatia at 4:00 am this morning when info came in pointing at a possible Brexit victory. I had relied on the wisdom of the bookies. But I red a ZH article indicating that even the bookies could have been wrong-footed by a few wealthy “betters” rigging the bookies forecast.
After the Putin presidency, the likely Trump nomination, this is the third huge blow against the NWO.
The NWO is dying. Good riddance to them.
GregT on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 3:55 pm
As always CHM,
Hope you are correct, but I really don’t think so. Hillary’s installation will continue as planned, and the world will be plunged even further into economic malaise.
WW3 first, and then the NWO.
shortonoil on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 4:15 pm
“Hillary’s installation will continue as planned, and the world will be plunged even further into economic malaise. “
Stop saying that kind of thing! It makes my skin crawl. It’s like looking out the window at 2:00 AM, and seeing the yard full of zombies. When I read it I got a whiff of three day old road kill.
If she wins all we can hope for is that the Russians do us a favor, and bomb us. Which just might be exactly what they will do.
peakyeast on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 5:21 pm
@claman: What makes you think Denmark will use the fighter planes for defence? The last many times we have used our military we have supported unprovoked attacks on goat herders on the other side of earth for personal profits.
Don Stewart on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 5:32 pm
I found this comment by Putin on Russia Television to be quite thought provoking. He made the comment before all the market action today:
Russian President Vladimir Putin says ‘Brexit’ is the choice made by the British nation and is a comprehensible one, as “no one wants to feed weak economies.” Russia has not and does not plan to interfere with the results of the referendum, he added.
“I think it’s comprehensible why this happened: first, no one wants to feed and subsidize poorer economies, to support other states, support entire nations,” the Russian president said at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tashkent.
“Apparently the British people are not satisfied with the way problems are being solved in the security sphere, these problems have become more acute lately with the migration processes,” Putin said, suggesting the second reason for the British people to have voted ‘out.’
The Russian president’s comments come in reply to UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s claims that “Putin would be happy if the UK left the EU.”
Now, if you look at the market action today, you see that US and UK stocks are down about 3 percent. But EU Banks and Italy and Spain stocks are down much more. From zero hedge:
Well they did it… and no one expected it…
UK Stocks -3.14% worst since Jan 2016
US Stocks -3% worst since Aug 2015 (biggest opening gap down since 1987)
VIX +6pts biggest daly rise since Aug 2015 crash
Japan Stocks -7.9% worst since 2011 (Tsunami)
Spain Stocks -12.5% worst since 1987
Italy Stocks -12% worst since 1997
EU Banks -14.5% worst ever
US Banks -4.75% worst since Nov 2011
US 30Y Yield -14bps biggest drop since 2011
US 2Y Yield -14bps biggest drop since 2009
German 10Y Yield -14bps biggest drop since 2011
GBPUSD -11% biggest drop ever
USDJPY -4% biggest drop since 1998
EURUSD -2% biggest drop since Oct 2015
Gold +5% biggest day since Lehman 2008
Crude -4.4% most since Jan 2016
It seems to me that Putin nailed it. By leaving, Britain seals the fate of those EU countries who are depending on subsidies. The number of rich countries willing to stay in the EU and subsidize the poor countries will dwindle. The market seems to have realized that. And the EU banks which are stuffed to the gills with government debt from the weak sisters will likewise fail without subsidies.
We might ask how a politician, Putin, knows this stuff. I suspect he got an intelligence briefing which alerted him to the leverage points which might pull the EU apart. Which works to Russia’s advantage. I don’t attribute evil ambitions to Russia, but Putin has made it clear that Russia needs trading partners. If the EU falls apart, and nobody is subsidizing the countries in eastern and southern Europe, then they will be glad to trade with Russia. A Europe united by subsidies can be easily swayed by the political wishes of those providing the subsidies.
Don Stewart
Plantagenet on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 5:55 pm
Gorbachev’s introduction of democracy to the USSR had the side effect of destroying the Soviet Union.
Cameron allowing the UK to democratically vote on the EU has just accidentally destroyed the European Union.
Democracy—its a wonderful thing!
Cheers!
Don Stewart on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 6:06 pm
Plantagenet
You might be interested in some more of Putin’s comments…Don Stewart
President Putin linked the results of the British referendum to the high concentration of power within the EU structure.
“The percentage of mandatory decisions made by the European Parliament is larger than that of mandatory decisions made by the High Council of the USSR concerning its member-republics. This means that the powers are highly concentrated within [the administrative body of the EU],” the Russian president said.
“Perhaps some are satisfied with this state of affairs, some do want to move along this road of dissolving the national borders, but some don’t. As the referendum results have shown, the majority of Britons don’t want to follow this path,” Putin added.
Go Speed Racer on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 6:16 pm
This might be a good thing. The rich Hillary bankster Fed globalists, are being shown they don’t really have the 100% control that they presume to have.
Go Speed Racer on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 6:20 pm
Hi Davy, yeah calamity and chaos right thru the circus USA elections. The wheels are falling off now for sure. Do you have a popcorn popper? For this train wreck, we each need a scoopful. With salt an butter.
Apneaman on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 6:47 pm
Don, I think Vlad is being clever again – playing to the common man – he good at that and it’s never been easier for the Russians to produce propaganda. All they really have to do is point out the contradictions in the western story/tell the truth.
What does Britain have for an economy? London is one of the money laundering capitals of the world, but that only benefits a tiny minority and is not real wealth – what does Britain produce that the world can’t live without? Could she feed her population without imports? Does she have abundant: Oil? Gas? Coal? Lumber? Grain? Some special tech no one else can produce? I have no numbers, but my guess is that GB is running on fumes and it’s usefulness to Washington. Pound for pound they still produce the best writers and actors in the world, but you can’t feed a country on that.
Don Stewart on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 7:00 pm
Apneaman
I have followed what Putin says fairly closely. He makes sense as the head of a federation which is fairly decentralized, but which is handicapped by size and history. He has lamented that Russia still suffers from the wartime losses and the dysfunctional USSR. Faced with a much larger and hostile United States, he has to look for angles to play.
He recently said something like this: ‘The world needs a very large country like the US…but it doesn’t need a very large country which tries to control everything in the smaller countries’. Which is the ‘pluralism’ story he told at the UN. The EU was pushing strongly toward the highly centralized model, and the proposed Trans-Atlantic trade agreement would have essentially provided for corporate rule over economic activity from Japan to Germany. Some pundits are saying that that dream is dead. We will see.
Don Stewart
Don Stewart on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 7:04 pm
Apneaman
A quote from one of those who think that globalism is severely wounded…Don Stewart
Ludwig von Mises understood that self-determination is the fundamental goal of liberty, of real liberalism. Today’s Brexit vote fired a shot heard around the world, to challenge the wisdom of the “globalism is inevitable” narrative. Ultimately, Brexit is not a referendum on trade, immigration, or the technical rules promulgated by the (awful) European Parliament. It is a referendum on nationhood, which is a step away from globalism and closer to individual self-determination.
John on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 7:13 pm
If u look at who voted which way, you will see the older generation voted out, simply, they got fed up with lies and promises from both sides of UK politicians over the past general election years, promising things they never kept…simply doing what unelected EU politicians said….young people hadn’t that problem in their thinking…yet!!!
JuanP on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 7:48 pm
Ap “what does Britain produce that the world can’t live without?”
Well, I have no idea! How is a product made in Britain labeled? Madein Britain? Made in England? Made in the UK? I truly have no idea. I can’t remember the last time I bought something made there. I don’t know if I own a single object made over there. And there food is horrible!
JuanP on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 7:51 pm
Don “It is a referendum on nationhood, which is a step away from globalism and closer to individual self-determination.”
I completely agree, and that is what I like so much about this Brexit vote. I hate globalization and I will enjoy every step of its demise. Globalization is evil!
JuanP on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 7:58 pm
John, The young don’t know any better. It is exactly the same thing everywhere. In the USA the young believed that feeling the Bern was going to make a difference. I think their optimism and innocence was pathetic. I never doubted for a second that Bernie’s run would amount to nothing. I told my best friends “Bernie will most likely lose. If he wins they will set him straight before he takes power. And, if he tries anything stupid as US president they will kill him just like they killed Kennedy. Do you think they can kill Kennedy and not Sanders? There is no hope. You are fools!”, and they didn’t like it at all, but as usual I was right.
ghung on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 9:36 pm
Some people think their vote doesn’t matter these days. In the UK, less than 18 million peoples’ votes wiped out an estimated $2.5 trillion in ‘wealth’, globally, in a matter of hours. POOF! Of course, that ‘wealth’ could just as easily reappear in a few days.
Why do they call something like that ‘wealth’?
Croatian Holiday Maker on Fri, 24th Jun 2016 10:25 pm
“WW3 first, and then the NWO.”
– The US can’t defeat Russia and China.
– It is unlikely that the US can even mobilize itself for WW3. Expect secessions.
– The US can’t mobilize Germany and France against Russia and or China. The US could not even mobilize Germany and France afainst Iraq. To the credit of Merkel she committed insubordination when she crafted Minsk 2, Nuland was fuming when this conflict potential was neutralized.
The most dangerous spot remains Syria. Obama to his credit has refused to send a force on the ground to fight Russia. Even Obama is fighting the NWO, which he can now afford because it is too late in his presidency to impeach him.
If Trump becomes president, the NWO is called off and NATO could be abolished.
Anonymous on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 12:10 am
The Trumpster will never pull the uS out of NATO, and keep breathing, that is. Trump might be dumb enough to believe his own rhetoric, but for the real rulers of the empire, NATO is a key instrument of uS imperial control, occupation, and subjugation. Trump would have as much luck trying to disband the CIA, or DHS, as he would NATO, and if looked like there was even the slightest chance he might succeed(thought legal channels), he would be given the JFK treatment.
Trumps successor, after trump was laid to rest in a tacky, gold plated coffin with a huge ‘T’ emblazoned on it, would of course, quickly reverse trumps no-more-NATO plan. And that would be that.
Croatian Holiday Maker on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 1:30 am
If Trump will manage to become president he could manage to dissolve NATO. They can’t just kill him without a plot story like Oswald. There must be an opportunity. This is 2016 with the allpervasive internet around, not 1963.
If Trump gets killed, it would mean armed revolution and a wave of secessions will follow. With the given demographics that is going to happen sooner or later anyway, Trump or no Trump.
GregT on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 2:43 am
“If Trump will manage to become president he could manage to dissolve NATO.”
Irrelevant. The NWO is not about military domination, it is about total control over global monetary systems.
The hand that gives is always above the hand that receives.
Croatian Holiday Maker on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 3:26 am
Russia and China together have the potential to free themselves from dollar hegemony. They announced it is their intention to do so: “dedollarization”.
Real hardcore Anglo doomers can inform themselves about the immanent global financial collapse, which will precede peakoil or climate change:
Usawatchdog.com
After that collapse or Big Reset (kiss your pension goodbye) the cards are going to be dealt anew.
By then, the dollar will no longer be a trump card.
Even The Donald openly fears a financial collapse.
Global financial collapse means social collapse in ethnicly mixed areas, like in big parts of the US.
#makeamericasmalleragain
Croatian Holiday Maker on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 3:44 am
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3657782/Brexit-proof-Donald-Trump-president.html
The Daily Mail correctly describes how populism is winning everywhere in the great western world. In America, in Germany, in France, in Britain… everywhere.
And although everybody tries to avoid overt racism, he intention is to build walls to fight mass migration and keep the unwanted out.
This intention fights the NWO, which wants to abolish nations. The NWO: the US flavor of communism, is on the way out.
Multipolar identitarian world is next.
Brexit is a very important first step. France is probably next and once nationalists will win there, the first thing they will do is fly to Moscow and they will be received with open arms.
makati1 on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 3:55 am
Croation, I agree. Russia & China have that capability, and are doing so in stages. Both are selling their USBs & USTs and buying gold or other resources with those dollars. Both know that they are not ready to collapse the dollar system just yet, unless forced to by the US. But that day IS coming. Better be prepared. I am.
peakyeast on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 3:58 am
I sure hope the European “union” has been dealt a death blow. Its an ugly UNdemocratic corrupt organisation.
Not even one person in the EU bureaucracy has been elected by the people. Its elites choosing elites for political and personal gain.
If we should have a union there should be elections as to who is sitting there.
Besides each time the EU bureaucracy has been caught stealing or cheating for billions – their solution has been to prevent it from being DISCOVERED again. Not fixing the problem.
I say: EU goodbye and good riddance – you wont be missed by the people – only by greedy power psychos.
Croatian Holiday Maker on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 4:02 am
Multipolar world latest:
https://www.rt.com/news/347953-erdogan-eu-turkey-muslim/
Proud Turkey is going to organize a referendum of their own and ask the Turks if Ankara should continue to pursue EU membership as it has been doing for half a century. At the time the Turks were useful as a bullwark against the Soviets.
But the USSR evaporated and the Turks became a pain in the European neck. But the US kept pressuring the Europeans not to estrange the Turks so the Euros kept fooling the Turks with endless lists of “criteria” which will never be met.
The timing of the Turkish referendum, one day after Brexit, reveals that Ankara perhaps quietly hopes that the Turkish population will reject Europe before Europe rejects Turkey.
Turkey is the natural leader of Islam. They should pursue the erection of an Islamic EU, aka Caliphate.
JuanP on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 4:30 am
CHM, I agree with Anonymous. NATO Means very, very big business and anyone trying to dissolve it now would be killed by TPTB. There are trillions in contracts and billions in bribes involved. You try to get rid of that and you are dead meat. Institutions like NATO, the USA, the IMF, and the UN will collapse by themselves because they are unsustainable, but their time hasn’t come yet.
JuanP on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 4:38 am
CHM ”
If Trump gets killed, it would mean armed revolution and a wave of secessions will follow.” I seriously doubt that. The USA has become a police state and its population is being brutally repressed. There will be no revolutions in the USA with an obese population that is hooked on drugs, pornography, and Nintendo! If you want a revolution in the USA you will need to wait until the government stops giving out food stamps and the power to run TVs, computers, Nintendos, HVACs, and the Internet runs out.
onlooker on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 4:56 am
True Juan NATO means the huge military/industrial complex and it sucks up so much income and economic activity , it will only go away once Industrial civilization goes away
JuanP on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 5:14 am
One million Brits sign petition asking for new referendum! That didn’t take long. LOL! The world we live in is a joke and most people are clowns!
https://www.rt.com/uk/348228-petition-parliament-uk-brexit/
Davy on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 6:20 am
The dollar will be the last man standing. The anti-Americans can’t stand this but this is what is playing out. There Bric bank is a bust and these days not even talk. The US is the least dirty shirt economically. Politically it is a circus. Socially it is a mixed bag. I have been on this board 4 years and it is always the same America bad anything else good. I think there is more to it, duh.
Davy on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 6:32 am
America a police state? I am not seeing it. If you are looking for trouble you will find it and Americans are particularly good at getting into trouble and the authorities are good at putting you in jail but police state nope. Poor and black living in the wrong place, yeap bad news but that is a social issue more than a police state issue. Corruption and class inequalities, yes, and getting worse but tell me where in the world that is not happening? The US has its share of problems little different than anywhere else. There is not enough difference to classify the US as a police state and the rest of the world free. I live here and have zero problems. The airports are often cited by you know who. What a joke, yea they are a pain in the ass but live with it WTF. The IRS is not a problem if you don’t try to cheat. If you are a small guy they don’t have time to audit you. People leaving the US, yeap, a few thousand rich people that have tax reasons, anther joke topic. On and on the anti-Americanism plays with little reason behind it. Is the US military a problem, yes, the number 1 problem. Let’s hope the corrupt NATO MIC is about over. Let’s hope isolationism take hold in the US both economically, politically, and militarily. It would be the best thing for everyone. The vacuum created is going to be an issue but in this time of decay and decline all nations are going to shrink.
Croatian Holiday Maker on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 6:40 am
In 2008 financial collapse began in the US as a consequence of “subprime loans”, meaning political correct mortages given to those people from who you could know in advance they would never pay it back. But hey, US bankers could pass on these worthless mortage papers to clueless foreigners with unshakeble belief in America, problem partially solved.
It doesn’t really matter where the crisis will begin this time: Greece, Ukraine, Brasil, Deutsche Bank, another US Lehman bank. Somewhere a major default will occur that will begin to cascade through the global system. Pensions will be cut, capital constraints woll be imposed like happened in Greece recently (60 euro cash withdrawals per week or something).
Davy on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 6:46 am
Monday we will see just how hard confidence will have been hit by Friday. Worry will be stewing over the weekend and very well might explode Monday morning. We are going to see if the global central banks still have it in them. We have seen crisis after crisis averted by the global authorities with the “whatever it takes”.
I really think this Brexit will be a disruptive event of no recovery because of the systematic changes to a large population and trading block. How do you undo 40 years of construction in 2 years? This will be a mess with distraction away from fighting the fire of economic decline. More countries are going to try to end their participation with more uncertainty. This uncertainty in a time of uncertainty will feed on itself.
There is so much repressed risk out there. Risk is going to pop up anywhere and everywhere like ants to when they invade your house. We are near a recession period anyway. We have been in a systematic recession for some time now but this recession will include the markets which have remained elevated since the last crisis. If we break into market recession this will likely be a recession without recovery.
“Today Is The Appetizer For Monday”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-24/today-appetizer-monday
“I do feel that Monday is where we’re going to see a truer-look at “where the bodies are buried” and a more accurate “price discovery” process than what we’re seeing today”
JuanP on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 7:09 am
The USA has more people and a higher percentage of its population in jail than any other country in the world, Davy. That is the definition of a police state, don’t you think? Of course, white and rich people like you and I need not be afraid of them, but most people better be very careful when interacting with the government or the police.
Croatian Holiday Maker on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 7:15 am
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/brexit-schottland-nimmt-gespraeche-mit-eu-auf-a-1099774.html
Scotland is pressing for rapid talks with the EU to see how Scottish European interests can be protected. A new independence referendum is definately in the cards now that a new situation has emerged witht the Brexit referendum result.
Nice thought: Euro-Siberian military bases in Scotland? Euro in Edinburgh soon?
JuanP on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 7:24 am
Brexit was yesterday and it was fun. Today life goes on. I am going to the garden to collect my daily harvest and build some disabled accessible raised beds. 😉
Croatian Holiday Maker on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 7:27 am
http://www.elsevier.nl/buitenland/achtergrond/2016/06/juncker-dan-moeten-britten-ook-maar-zo-snel-mogelijk-weg-321000/
EU chief Juncker wants to get rid of the British as soon as possible and resists obvious delaying tactics as exercised by Cameron, who wants to wait with negotiations until the next conversative leader will be elected, probably The Boris himself, who maneuvered his country out of one of the most attractive economic and cultural circles in the world, for no other reason than that after his mayorship of London was terminated by an Islamist he had no other career prospect than leading a Brexit campaign to topple his arch opponent Cameron and take his job as prime minister.
Two years ago The Boris was lukewarm at best about a Brexit.
Davy on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 7:32 am
Juan, I agree at a certain level but the classification of the US as a police state is too lose for me. Being poor and of color makes it more real especially if you are into trouble which many are primarily because of the failed drug war. I don’t see the rest of the world much better. In fact, China is off the charts as is many others. I would say the US has inequality and repressive law enforcement for those that are unequal. The prison system is a correctional institution tool and incarceration system. The correctional tool is much of the problem with prison numbers. I am white yes, but rich? What is rich? By most American standards I am not rich. I am middle class by choice. I could have been rich but I chose a different path. Regardless, being white, not poor, and not into trouble I have no problems with the police. The local ones are my friends. They fish in my lakes sometimes. I give to the “Masters” organization that benefits the families of fallen MO Highway patrol officers. If I get pulled over I say “Yes Sir, no Sir” I don’t mess with them and I treat them like they are the boss which they are. Does NSA worry me, yes, but I think they have their hands full and they are more interested in potential terrorists. You can label the US “police state”. I can’t.
Croatian Holiday Maker on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 7:32 am
Ah Juan, at home my strawberries are rotting away in the rain and will probably be eaten by the birds as I had to remove the nets after the third bird got entangled in them, with one dead.
It is not easy to liberate a bird and convince the poor soul of your good intentions, armed with garden gloves and a cissors.
Davy on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 7:51 am
Yesterday evening I caught an attack of Privet Hawk-moths. They were quickly eating up my Tomatoes plants. Last week it was Japanese beetles on grape vines and fruit trees. My strategy has been overplant to overcome weather and pests.
makati1 on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 7:54 am
JuanP, Those who live in the pot of warming US Police State water don’t see the chains they are wearing or feel the heat … yet, unless they are people of color. But Whitey’s day is already turning hotter and approaching the boiling point.
Freedom is history in America. Just because your door has not been broken down by the gestapo…er…Swat Team at 3AM doesn’t mean it cannot or will not happen. You cannot use your phone or PC without being recorded/watched. You cannot go anywhere without cameras watching your every move. Every use of your credit cards is recorded. Every transaction at your bank is recorded. There is no privacy in America anymore.
All it will take is one “emergency”, real or faked, and the Police State will come out into the open and shock the deniers, but it will be too late. Obama already has the powers lined up and ready to be put into action. Or possibly the war bitch will win and she will not hesitate to use those powers. Wait and see.
Croatian Holiday Maker on Sat, 25th Jun 2016 8:07 am
http://www.infowars.com/eu-leaders-tell-britain-to-urgently-trigger-formal-process-to-leave-brussels/
Juncker can now say what he thinks, namely that the British can’t expect an amical divorce and that British-EU relations never were exactly a tight love affair.
The EU are clearly going to use the Brexit to set an example of what happens to you if you leave the buiding.
One needs to be reminded that continental Europe holds all the cards in this standoff, like passing Russian oil and gas and that it absorbs most of the UK’s economic output without tariffs.
That’s going to change now.
Fortunately the English have a large number of islamists within their borders to buddy up with instead.
London is a British minority city, but thanks to all these mmigrants from Poland and Romania, it is still a European majority city. That could change if these people go back home or move to Germany instead.